The original Young Avengers series was a major hit for Marvel when it launched in 2005. Writer Allan Heinberg managed to craft a new team of largely original characters that paid homage to the legacy of the Avengers. Unfortunately, Heinberg's various writing commitments meant that the team had a fairly small presence in the Marvel Universe in the years following. But with Heinberg finally wrapping up his saga with Avengers: The Children's Crusade earlier this year, the stage was finally set for new creators to steer the team forward.
As many predicted following the release of last week's Marvel NOW! teaser, those creators are Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie. Readers will get a preview of the new series via a short story in this month's Marvel NOW: Point One special. The main series will debut in January 2013.
The new roster will feature three returning Young Avengers - Wiccan, Hulkling, and Hawkeye (Kate Bishop). Fans of Gillen's Journey Into Mystery will be pleased to see that the writer will continue penning the misadventures of Loki in Marvel NOW!. Also joining the team are Miss America Chavez (introduced in Joe Casey's mini-series Vengeance) and Marvel Boy (last seen in the pages of Avengers Vol. 4).
CBR had the reveal and an interview with both Gillen and McKelvie. Gillen talked about switching gears to his new titles, saying, "For the last few years, I've tried to do two books simultaneously at Marvel. One is kind of the more mainstream book. It tries to embrace the larger scale more super heroic approach. The other is something a little more build-from-ground-up. Uncanny was the former, Journey into Mystery was the latter. Now, Iron Man is the former, and Young Avengers is the latter. Stylistically Young Avengers is very different from Journey Into Mystery, but it kind of replaces it in that this is the title where I'm pushing things a little bit and looking for a new way to explore the Marvel Universe and comics. It feels fresh, exciting, very weird, accessible and fun."
With the cancellation of books like Generation Hope and Avengers Academy, Marvel NOW! had been looking strangely devoid of teen superhero books apart from Avengers Arena. Gillen spoke about his plans for uniting the various teen groups in the Marvel Universe. what I want to do in Young Avengers is build a kind of larger metastructure that you can use to explore any part of the teen leaning Marvel Universe outside the traditional doctrines of the larger government side heroes. I have a real strong vision for 12 issues. I have no idea if I'll be staying on after that or going, but I have 12 definitive, brilliant issues, or maybe 13."
He continued, "After that Young Avengers will be set up as a device where you can go to any of the Marvel Universe locales where teen heroes live and work like the West Coast with the Runaways or the Jean Grey School. It's a very wide ranging book in that way. For me it's super heroism as a metaphor for talent and deciding what you want to do with it. There's a line in my original proposal for this that the original Young Avengers book was kind of about being 16. This book is about being 18."
Check out the CBR interview for more, and stay tuned later this week to see what Marvel has to say about this announcement at NYCC.
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